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The struggle continues
The struggle continues
Against what?
No to ProSavana!
Prosavana is a 'triangular' cooperation programme involving the three governments of Brazil, Japan and Mozambique
that will allow large Brazilian and Japanese agribusiness companies to acquire from Mozambican authorities
the concession of over 14.5 million hectares of land (for soya, corn, sunflower and cotton monocultures)
in the north of the country, in an area known as the Nacala Development Corridor.
The programme encompasses nineteen districts located in the provinces of Nampula, Niassa and Zambézia.
No to ProSavana
Imagine a land of 14 million hectares.
Larger than England
Populated by millions of farming families that together practice shifting cultivation.
Now imagine a foreign consultant saying that all of these are abandoned lands.
Another foreign company saying it will come to farm all of it.
Yet another foreign company saying it will ship everything produced out of there.
And a president agreeing to all of this, selling this 14 million hectares for a dollar per hectare.
Can't be true?
It's happening in a part of Mozambique.
Brazil and Japan are going to colonize a big chunk of the country.
Let us fight with the peasants to defend our land and our natural resources.
Against aggression, theft, commodification and privatization of land.
We cannot win this fight alone.
We need all the movements of peasants, environmentalists and other social groups.
We need rural communities and all people and friends to help us in the fight
to defend our rights and interests of access and control over land, water, property and cultural heritage.
We call for a vigorous and firm resistance of all those affected by ProSavana
and victims of commodification and usurpation of land, social and environmental injustices.
The struggle continues...
NO TO PROSAVANA!